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copy  which  may  ba  bibliographically  uniqua. 
which  may  altar  any  of  tha  imagas  in  tha 
reproduction,  or  which  may  significantly  change 
the  usual  method  of  filming,  are  checked  below. 


L'Institut  a  microfilm*  le  meilleur  exemplaire 
qu'il  lui  a  M  possible  de  se  procurer.  Les  details 
da  cet  exemplaire  qui  sont  peut-Atre  uniques  du 
point  de  vue  bibliographique,  qui  peuvent  modifier 
une  image  reproduite,  ou  qui  peuvent  exiger  une 
modification  dans  la  methods  normale  de  filmage 
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Encra  de  couleur  (i.e.  autre  que  bleue  ou  noire) 


I      I    Coloured  plates  and/or  illustrations/ 


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along  interior  margin/ 

La  reliure  serrie  peut  causer  de  I'ombre  ou  de  la 
distortion  le  long  de  la  marge  intArieure 

Blank  leaves  added  during  restoration  may 
appear  within  the  text.  Whenever  possible,  these 
have  been  omitted  from  filming/ 
II  se  peut  que  curtainas  pages  blanches  aJoutAes 
lors  d'une  restauration  apparaissent  dans  la  texte. 
mais,  lorsqua  cela  Atait  possible,  ces  pages  n'ont 
pas  «t«  filmAas. 

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Commentairas  supplAmentairas; 


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Pages  detached/ 
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Transparence 

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Quality  in6gale  de  I'impression 

Includes  supplementary  material/ 
Comprand  du  materiel  suppi^mantaira 

Only  edition  available/ 
Seule  Edition  disponible 


Pages  wholly  or  partially  obscured  by  errata 
slips,  tissues,  etc.,  have  been  refilmed  to 
ensure  the  best  possible  image/ 
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obscurcies  par  un  feuillet  d'errata,  una  pelura, 
etc.,  ont  At*  filmAes  A  nouveau  de  fa^on  A 
obtenir  la  meilleure  image  possible. 


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The  images  appearing  here  are  the  best  quality 
possible  considering  the  condition  and  legibility 
of  the  original  copy  and  in  Iteeping  with  the 
filming  contract  specifications. 


Original  copies  in  printed  paper  covers  are  filmed 
beginning  with  the  front  cover  and  ending  on 
the  last  page  with  a  printed  or  illustrated  impres- 
sion, or  the  bacit  cover  when  appropriate.  All 
other  original  copies  are  filmed  beginning  on  the 
first  page  with  a  printed  or  illustrated  impres- 
sion, and  ending  on  the  last  page  with  a  printed 
or  illustrated  impression. 


The  last  recorded  frame  on  each  microfiche 
shall  contain  the  symbol  — ^  (meaning  "CON- 
TINUED"), or  the  symbol  V  (meaning  "END"), 
whichever  applies. 


Les  images  suivantes  ont  M  reproduites  avec  le 
plus  grand  soin,  compte  tenu  de  la  condition  at 
de  la  nettetA  de  I'exemplaire  filmi,  et  en 
conformity  avec  les  conditions  du  contrat  de 
filmage. 

Les  exempiaires  originaux  dont  la  couverture  en 
papier  est  imprim^  sont  filmis  en  commen9ant 
par  le  premier  plat  at  en  terminant  soit  par  la 
darniire  page  qui  comports  une  empreinte 
d'impression  ou  d'illustration,  soit  par  le  second 
plat,  selon  le  cas.  Tous  les  autres  exempiaires 
originaux  sont  film<ks  en  commen9ant  par  la 
premiAre  page  qui  r  omporte  une  empreinte 
d'impression  ou  d'ihustration  et  en  terminant  par 
la  derniire  page  qui  comporte  une  telle 
empreinte. 

Un  des  symboles  suivants  appara?tra  sur  la 
derniAre  image  de  cheque  microfiche,  selon  le 
cas:  le  symbols  -^  signifie  "A  SUIVRE",  le 
symbols  V  signifie  "FIN". 


Maps,  plates,  charts,  etc.,  may  be  filmed  at 
different  reduction  ratios.  Those  too  large  to  be 
entirely  included  in  one  exposure  are  filmed 
beginning  in  the  upper  left  hand  corner,  left  to 
right  and  top  to  bottom,  as  many  frames  as 
required.  The  following  diagrams  illustrate  the 
method: 


Les  cartes,  planches,  tableaux,  etc.,  peuvent  Atre 
fiimAs  A  des  taux  de  reduction  diffArents. 
Lorsque  le  document  est  trop  grand  pour  Atre 
reproduit  en  un  seul  clich*.  il  est  ?ilm«  6  partir 
de  i'angle  supArieur  gauche,  de  gauche  A  droite, 
et  de  haut  en  bas,  en  prenant  le  nombre 
d'images  nicessaire.  Les  diagrammes  suivants 
illustrent  la  methods. 


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Scribe :  Biati  mm'tui,  qui  in  Domino  moriuntur. 
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IN  iml)lic!  ami  in  privsiti',  so  inuiiy  res  petit  fill  and 
tundiM- trilmtos  liuvo  Ikhmi  piiid,  Hint-e  liis  dt-atli, 
to  William  Katon,  that  it  Beems  fitting  that  his  own 
childivn,  who  know  him   lu-st,  hIiouM   say  a   IVw 
words  concerning  his  cliarai-ter  and  life.     Mis  |ier- 
sonaiity  was  one  that  slionid  not  licsnlTered  to  fade 
from   the  meniory  at  least  of  any  wlio  were  coi/- 
nected  with  him  hy  ties  of  Idood  or  ch)SO  friend- 
ship; and  so  niueh,  aa  it  now  appears,  did  lie  in  his 
public  otlieial  life  endear  himself  to  those  lussociated 
with  liim,that  no  apology  is  otfered  for  pntting  he- 
fore  tiiem  a  little  more  careful  ac<'ount  than  lias  yet 
been  given  of  our  revered  father.     Such  an  estimate 
could  scarcely  have  been  made  while  he  was  alive, 
but  now,  alas!  the  change  has   come   which  sets 
every  life  in  true  perspective. 

In  ITfiO,  five  years  afterlhe  tragical  expulsion  of 
the  Acadian  French,  the  founders  of  many  of  the 
county  families  of   Nova   Scotia,  uieu  of  the  best 


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New  Eiigliind  stock,  removed  from  Massacjhusetts, 
liliodu  Island,  or  Coiiiieeticut,  to  the  fertile  Pntv- 
iiice  of    Nova  Seotia,  where  tliey  became  owners 
of  vahmble  tracts  of  land  tiiut  before  the  expulsion 
had  belonged  to  the  Acadians.     This  land-owner- 
Blii}»  gave  them  tiie  importance  of  large  planters, 
not  the  least  of  their  wealth  l.ying  in  the  rich  dyke 
lands  abont   the    Basin    of     Minas   and    the    tidal 
streams.     In  the  beantifnl  "  Evangeline  Country," 
Boon  after  erected  into  the  County  of  Kings,  many 
of  these  planters  settled,  founding  the  greater  num- 
ber of  what  have  always  been  the  leading  families  of 
the  county,  the  Hclchers,  Chipnians.  Cogswells,  De 
Wolfs,  Eatons,  Harrises,  Rands,  Starrs,  and  Wood- 
worths.    The  chief  representative,  in  the  county,  of 
the    Eaton    family,  in  the  last  generation,  was  our 
grand  father.  Ward  Eaton.  Esij.,  who  married  his  first 
cousin,  Deborah  Eaton,  l)()th  of  them  being  grand- 
children of   the  founders  of   the  family  in   Nova 
Scotia,  Mr.   David    Eaton,  and  his   wife  Deborah 
White.     Of  our  grandparents  no  words  of  eulogy 
are  too  strong  to  be  spoken.     They  were  people  of 
unusual  dignity,  high  breeding,  and  superior  sense. 
Their  home  in  Cornwallis  had  about  it  the  atmos- 
phere of  true  refinement,  and    in  their   presence 


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rudeness  or  meanness  could  not  stay.  "  T!io  Scjuire," 
as  Mr.  Eaton  was  often  simply  called,  was  both 
loved  and  feared,  for  although  no  man  was  ever 
more  generous  and  kindly  than  lie,  his  convictions 
of  justice  were  strong,  and  in  his  puMic  life,  and  in 
all  his  judgments  of  men,  he  was  quick  to  detect 
falsehood  and  wrong.  He  lived  in  the  days,  which 
seem  far  away  now,  of  fierce  strife  in  Nova  Scotia 
between  the  old  liberal  and  conservative  parties — 
the  "  Howe  and  Johnston  "  times — and  his  political 
sympathies,  as  became  a  gentleman  of  theoldscluxd 
as  he  was,  were  strongly  on  the  "Tory"  side.  Of 
our  dear  grandmother,  no  one  who  remembers  her 
can  ever  speak  except  with  deep  respect  and  love. 
She  was  a  woman  of  exalted  qualities  of  mind  and 
rare  gifts  of  heart ;  and  it  is  no  disparagement 
to  others  to  say  that  she  was  probably  the  most 
widely  known  and  best  loved  wom.in  of  her  time 
in  the  county.  All  her  husband's  hospitalities  she 
warmly  secomJcd,  and  many  distinguished  i)ersons 
throughout  the  Province  held  her  in  high  esteem. 

By  such  parents  William  Eaton  was  reared,  and 
as  he  grew  up  it  was  evident  that  he  had  inherited 
many  of  the  qualities  of  both.  To  his  father's 
strong,  clear,  discriminating   mind,  generous   im. 


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pulses,  and  courteous  luamiers,  he  joined  his 
mother's  gentleness,  patience,  and  self-forgetfulness. 
Of  all  her  six  children  he  was,  we  think,  the  most 
like  her,  and  the  loving  way  in  which  she  invariably 
spoke  his  name,  gave  us  unconsciously  the  feeling 
that  he  was  a  little  the  nearest  her  heart. 

The  great  fact  concerning  a  man,  as  Carlyle  has 
said,  is  his  religion,  and  our  father's  nature  was  so 
deeply  religious  that  in  any  estimate  of  him  his 
religion  should  not  be  passed  by.  Of  a  family 
that  for  six  generations  before  his  parents,  had  been 
Puritan  Congregationalists,  his  views  were  natu- 
rally Calvinistic,  and  all  his  life  the  present  to  him 
was  simply  a  preparation  time  for  better  things 
beyond.  lie  lived  with  a  profound,  personal  sense 
of  God,  and  died  as  he  lived.  But  in  his  definite 
theological  opinions,  he  was  too  much  of  a  reader 
and  too  clear-minded  not  to  feel,  as  time  went  on, 
the  influence  of  rational  thought,  and  while  he 
rarely  discussed  theology,  being  constitutionally 
reticent  iii  religion,  he  gave  many  evidences  in 
later  years  that  his  opinions  had  undergone  some- 
what of  the  common  change. 

That  which  is  the  basis  of  true  religion,  however, 
sense  of  duty,  with  him  never  weakened.     His  love 


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for  the  right  was  a  rock  against  whieli  temptation 
of  all  sorts  boat  in  vain.  His  jiidgnients  were, 
doubtlu«3,  aonietinies  wrong,  but  there  must  be  few 
men  in  the  world  with  conseioiices  more  undeliled 
than  his.  One  of  liis  most  marked  eharacteristics 
was  his  love  for  reading.  He  was  not  insensible  to 
human  companionship,  or  the  charms  of  society, 
biit  give  him  a  book  or  a  newspaper,  and  ho  was 
always  perfectly  content  to  be  alone.  He  was  not 
free  from  regard  for  the  good  opinion  of  others, 
but  the  morbid  desire  to  l)e  conspicuous  that  char- 
acterizes so  many,  and  indeed  all  purely  seliish  am- 
bitions, were  foreign  to  his  luitnre.  An  atmosphere 
of  thought  and  en<|uiry,  through  his  inllueiice,  per- 
vaded his  home,  and  his  children  will  always  re- 
member with  pleasure  the  dignilied,  clear  English, 
an  English  formed  from  intercourse  with  the  best 
classics  of  our  tongue,  that  he  always  spoke  and 
encouraged  his  family  to  speak.  In  early  life  be 
was  strict,  even  stern,  in  discipline,  and  unable 
sometimes  to  enter  into  his  children's  younger  ways 
of  thought,  but  there  was  never  a  time,  when  for 
them,  or  for  his  wife,  whom  ho  loved  with  rare  de- 
votion, ho  would  not  have  cut  off  his  right  baud, 
had  he  felt  that  their  welfare  required  it.     In  the 


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course  of  years  he  grew  not  less  but  much  more 
sympathetic  with  ways  of  thought  tliat  diil'ered  from 
his  own,  and  after  the  death  of  his  wife  the  mel- 
lowing process  in  his  whole  nature  was  so  complete 
that  he  constantly  seemed  to  grow  more  true  a 
saint. 

The  facts  of  his  public  life  and  service  are 
briefly  these.  f]ducated  at  the  Cornwallis  schools, 
and  at  Ilorton  Academy,  in  his  seventeenth  year 
ho  entered  the  i)rofesaion  of  teaching,  and  for 
fourteen  years  was  a  highly  successful  teacher, 
especially  of  mathematics  and  classics.  In  1854 
he  was  appointed  a  Commissioner  of  Schools,  which 
ottice  he  held,  except  during  an  interval  of  three 
years,  for  the  rest  of  his  life.  Ii\  18(55  the  Govern- 
ment, acting  through  the  Council  of  Public  In- 
Htriiction,  conferred  upon  him  the  important  otKce 
of  Inspector  of  ScIhioIs  fur  Kings  County,  in  which 
he  was  succeeded  hy  the  Itev.  Robert  Somerville, 
now  of  Nov,'  York,  in  18<!S.  At  the  time  of  his 
appointment  the  Free  School  Act  had  just  come 
into  force,  and  his  pacific  temper  and  his  courteous 
treatment  of  the  iieople  of  the  county  did  much  to- 
wards allaying  the  discontent  it  had  aroused. 

In  1S51>  he  was  appointed  a  Commissioner  in  the 


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Supreme  Court  of  tlie  Province,  imd  in  1870,  as 
liis  fatiier  hail  lievn  before  him,  a  .1  iistice  of  the 
Peace.  Sixteen  years  later,  in  188(>,  the  shire  town 
of  Kentville,  where  he  had  long  resided,  one  of 
the  oldest  and  most  beautiful  viilaj^es  in  tiie 
Province,  \va.s  incorporated,  and  the  prominent 
part  he  had  always  taken  in  its  pui)lic  affairs,  and 
his  high  standing  in  the  community  naturally  gave 
him  a  place  on  its  first  Council  Hoard.  Soon  after 
he  was  iiskcd  to  accept  the  rcs|ionsilile  position  of 
(^Icrk  and  Tresisurer  of  the  town,  and  this  doulile 
office  he  held  until  liis  death. 

In  early  manh.xHl  our  fatlier  settled  in  Kentville, 
where  after  some  yeai-s  he  married  Anna  Augusta 
Willuughby  Hamilton,  his  l)rother  .lohn  Kufus, 
also,  soon  after  marrying  her  sister  Josephine. 

Our  mother  was  the  youngest  daughter  of  Otlio 
and  Maria  Starr  Hamilton  ;  a  descendant  of  one  of 
the  well-known  branches  of  the  Scottish  Hamiltons 
(her  grandfather  having  been  born  and  educated 
in  Scotland),  and  of  the  American  Starrs,  and 
De Wolfs  ;  and  a  near  connexion  of  the  Willoughbys. 
Her  family  belonged  to  tiie  Church  of  Kngland,  and 
she  and  our  father  were  married  by  the  Ilev.  .lohn 
Storrs,   father  of  the  present  popular  Vicar  of  St. 


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Peter's,  Eaton  Square,  London,  at  St.  James  Church, 
Kentville,  a  clnircli  identified  with   much  of  our 
family's  history   in  the   past  and  now.     On  their 
marriage  our  parents  settled  in  Kentville,  always 
our  mother's  home,   and  gradually  our  father  ac- 
quired a  valuable  •  .ty,  which  he  continually 
more  and   more        gnt   to    improve.     Our    dear 
mother  was  a  proud,  sensitive  woman,  of  acknow- 
ledged beauty,  and  with   a  loving,  tender  heart. 
She,  too,   died  suddenly,   at  the  early  age  of  fifty- 
tive,  on  the  twenty-third  of  September,  1883,  and 
not  only  her  sad  family  circle,  but  society  at  large, 
mourned  for  her  as  one  of  its  most  useful  members. 
Of  our  father's  relations  in  the  Eaton  name  were 
hifi  first  cousins  the  late  Colonel  Daniel  Eaton,  of 
Washington,  D.  C,  the  late  Mr.  George  Eaton,  of 
St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  Clement  Belcher  Eaton, 
of  St.  Stephen,  and  Brenton  Halliburton  Eaton,  of 
Halifax.     Other  more  distant  cousins  wore  General 
John  Eaton,  of  Washington,  and  Wyatt  Eaton,  one 
of  the  most  eminent  portrait  and  figure  painters  of 
our  day.     His   nearest   relations   of  other   names 
were  among  the  Ulisses,  Rands,  and  Whites.     He 
was  connected  distantly  with  both  the  Bliss  fami- 
lies of   New  Brunswick,  to  one  of  which  belonged 


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Chief  Justice  Joiiatlian  and  liis  son  .Tu(l;,'e  William 
Blowers  Bliss;  to  the  other  Judj^e  Daniel  and  his 
6011  Judge  John  Murray  Bliss,  and  the  mother  of 
Sir  Lemuel  Allan  Wiliiiot. 

His  White  relations  were  exelneively  in  the 
United  States,  the  most  eminent  of  thciti,  perhaps, 
being  the  late  Mr.  llicliard  Grant  White.  His 
children  are  six,  two  of  them  graduates  of  Harvard, 
and  all  holding  honorable  positions  in  society.  One 
of  his  sons  is  a  clergyman  of  the  Episcopal  Church 
in  New  York,  and  another  a  lawyer  and  j)ro8e- 
cuting  attorney  in  the  State  of  Washington.  His 
only  daughter  is  the  wife  of  Mr.  George  A.  Layttm, 
of  H.  M.  Customs  in  Truro,  and  his  most  dearly 
loved  daughter-in-law,  the  wife  of  his  youngest  son, 
is  a  dangliter  of  the  late  Mr.  James  II.  Thorne,  of 
Halifax. 

Of  our  father's  last  sickness  the  facts  arc  few. 
A  week  before  liis  death  he  left  his  otlico  as  usual, 
after  a  hard  day's  work,  and  in  the  evening  wafi 
seized  with  a  violent  chill  which  shortly  developed 
into  pneumonia.  On  Wednesday,  May  third,  he 
died  at  "  Elmwood,"  the  honi«  where  the  benedic- 
tion of  his  presence  had  so  long  been  felt,  and  then 
we  began  to  know  how  much  the  people  among 


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wlioiii  liis  lift'  liad  gone  on,  valued  and  loved  liiin. 
His  funeral  was  the  largest  and  most  touching  ever 
known  in  the  county.  The  schools  were  closed,  the 
court  Wii8  KURj)cnded,  public  resolutions  were  passed, 
beautiful  flowers  were  sent,  and  with  universal 
sorrow  he  was  borne  to  rest.  Not  the  least  touch- 
ing tribute  was  that  paid  him  by  the  children  of  the 
schools,  who  went  into  the  woods  and  with  their  own 
hands  plucked  great  <|uantities  of  Mayflowers  for 
his  casket.  With  masses  of  these  beautiful  native 
flowers,  just  then  in  bloom,  his  grave  in  " The  Oaks" 
was  lined  :  and  so  our  father  slept. 

The  order  of  his  funeral  was  as  follows : 

The  Mayor  anij  Town  Council 

The  HoAun  ok  School  Commissioners 

Ex-Mayors  and  Ex-Councillors 

Town  Officials 

Officiating  Clkroymen 

The  Body 

(borne  by  Ex-otticiala  of  the  Town) 

Mourners 

A  Lar(;e  Concourse  of  Citizens 

At  the  gate  of  the  cemetery  the  Town  Council, 
School  Commissioners,  and  Town  Oflicials,  who  had 


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preceded  the  body  divided  into  two  linen,  uncover- 
ing, as  the  casket  was  hornc  within.  Then  tliey 
solemnly  fell  behind  the  bier,  and  so  psissed  to 
the  grave. 

At  a  public  Memorial  Service  held  in  Kentville, 
a  few  days  after  our  father's  death,  Judge  ('hi|)uiaii, 
with  whom  and  whose  family  he  lia<l  always  been 
on  terms  of  the  closest  intimacy,  said  :  "In  looking 
back  over  the  past  I  cannot  think  of  a  single  in- 
stance in  which  Mr.  Eaton  failed  to  exemplify  the 
right.  He  wjis  a  man  of  sterling  character  and  pure 
life,  doing  nothing  from  selfish  motives,  but  seeking 
only  the  highest  welfare  of  the  community.  I 
thank  (iod  for  the  noble  example  he  has  set  us,  for 
the  seeds  of  kindness  he  scattered  by  the  way,  for 
his  gentleness  and  urbanity,  for  his  unsullied  repu- 
tation, and  his  blameless  Christian  character  and 
life."  To  such  praise  as  this  a  newsjiaper  editorial 
about  t!ie  same  time  added  :  "  Mr.  Eaton  has  filled 
many  public  positions  both  provincial  and  munici- 
pal, and  in  none  of  these  have  his  probity  and  in 
tegrity  ever  been  questioned." 

Since  his  death  a  multitude  of  letters  of  sympathy 
have  been  received  l)y  his  children,  from  various 
parts  of  the  country  aiul  from  abroad,  some  of  them 


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most  toncliing  in  their  expressionB  of  love  and  re- 
spect. "  He  was  one  of  Niiturc's  noblemen,"  their 
writers  say.  "He  died  as  he  lived,  a  Christian 
gentleman,  honored  and  respected  by  all."  "A 
better  man  truly  never  lived  or  died.  He  could  not 
have  had  one  enemy  in  the  whole  world." 


